BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has confirmed that its BlackBerry application store, App World, will not be available in Australia just yet.
US mobile carrier T-Mobile yesterday made the formal, nationwide launch of its G1, the first phone to run Google's Android operating system.
Google officially opened its Android Market Wednesday in the US and promised that beginning next year, programmers would get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile phone operating system.
Optus is asking its customers to choose between two of the most popular handsets of 2008, the iPhone 3G and the Android-powered HTC Dream, we take a look at the pricing.
Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers.
Last year I opined that, even if Telstra did launch Apple's iPhone 3G, conflicting goals meant it couldn't afford to seriously back the product. This year, Telstra proved me right, and the reason is simple: Australia's biggest telco just wants to be a Mac.
If I choose to upgrade the engine of my car, Holden will not recall it at some point in the future to restore its default configuration. Yet to most users, this behaviour is perfectly acceptable for devices.
Given that the new iPhone 3G S is rated at up to 7.2Mbps, you'd think Telstra would be all over it as a potential show pony for Next G's purported high-speed performance. Yet the opposite seems to be true.
Google's recent announcement of Android has sparked a debate over whether the mobile Linux platform will prove more secure than Apple's proprietary iPhone.
2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Can Google be a partner to mobile phone makers? Only if the company can force itself to beg, beguile, and bluff, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos.
Alan Noble is the engineering and site director for Google Australia. ZDNet.com.au sat down with him to find out about the future of Web, and what Google really thinks about Microsoft's move into online applications.
Apple showed off some of the new features in its upcoming OS X \"Snow Leopard\" release: dock expose, zoomable live previews in Finder and improved workflow.
The timing couldn't have been worse. What with Android phones now hitting the market and updates to Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry, Microsoft is telling partners to expect delays receiving Mobile Windows 7. On the CNET News Daily Debrief, Charles Cooper speaks with Ina Fried, who broke the news of the delay.
At WWDC 2009, Apple unveiled the new 15-inch Macbook Pro. The new laptop comes with a better battery, SD Card slot and a new processor.
Parts of the phone are as the name suggests, magic, but the absence of outstanding multimedia jeopardises the success of this latest Android.
The iPhone 3GS is faster and we appreciate the new features and extended battery life, but call quality and 3G reception still need improvement.
Its excellent multimedia support, storage and gorgeous display make the Omnia better for people who put pleasure before business.
The N97 features class-leading specs matched with outstanding design and build, but it loses marks for the Symbian platform that desperately needs an overhaul to stay competitive.
Google has rethought the Internet browser some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel but users will recognise some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.
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